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+# DARIAH-DE Aggregator Services
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+The TextGrid Aggregator is the export and conversion tool for data from the TextGrid repository. While TG-crud allows you to get individual objects and their metadata in their original format, this tool allows you to collect a whole bunch of resources in one go (e.g., by walking down aggregation trees, hence the name) and convert them to popular output formats, e.g., HTML.
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+For the time being the agregator service is only used for TextGrid Lab and Repositiory, it could also be adapted to the use within the DARIAH-DE Repository for aggragating and delivering things such as all objects of one collection from the index pages, and more.